 Love death and robots. I finally had a chance to watch this series So let's get to it Hey everybody, welcome to another exciting episode another edition of a we can geek them here on YouTube this time We're gonna be talking about the Netflix Anthology web TV series Adult animated thing Known as love death and robots the 18 episode first season was released this past March of 2019 And it is produced by Joshua Donan David Fincher Jennifer Miller and Tim Miller each of the episodes is animated by different people from a range of different countries and it's sort of a reimagining of Fincher and Miller's long development reboot development of the 1981 animated movie sci-fi animated movie heavy metal now. I had no idea what the series was about I just saw a couple trailers randomly pop up on my social media feed about this anthology of shorts of animated shorts and they looked really Interesting it was weird because I'm not used to or the word has been a while. I should say since we have gotten Animated shorts of this nature. I do remember the The 80s heavy metal film, of course I wasn't born when it came out, but I have seen it and I do remember it somewhat Strangely, it's not technically my cup of tea, but I do know that it is based of the long-running Magazine and it just presents us different stories or vignettes in sci-fi settings and The story, you know that that story element isn't necessarily my favorite because I you know if you do And that's one of the main issues I have Excuse me with This love death and robots thing is that you are doing short stories and I'm the off chance that you have a winner That's it all you're getting is like 10 to 12 minutes of story time and then you're left with a massive cliffhanger and It's never gonna pick up again, so you're frustrated and that happens a lot with this series love a death and robots I mentioned earlier in the title card that it's sort of a Reimagining if you will it was supposed to be this reboot for heavy metal, but it didn't come to pass So it was rebooted instead as this Funky little anthology series now what you're getting is 18 standalone episodes all under 20 minutes long. I think The longest one being like 17 minutes or something like that and they all present different Stories some are really short I think there was one that was like five minutes long and others are more intricate in their presentation You have a totally mixed bag You have things like Gladiatorial alien fights in Underground futuristic Fighting rings you have themes of love desperation. There is a little bit of black comedy of horror All the fantasy elements that involve a series like this You know examining life and what it's worth and the nature of our Being on on the universe and how we relate to it all those topics get explored in this Mini series that for the most part succeeds. I know there was some controversy. I know a lot of people criticized most of the stories because Yeah for one You know, it's super violent a lot of them are really violent almost all of them have some sort of nudity which was hilarious to me because Whenever I see American adult animated things they usually You know to break the stigma over Western audiences They go with the tired formula of cursing a lot showing a lot of genitalia and extreme violence You don't really need that just because it says it's an adult Animated thing it you don't you don't need that now I'm not saying the whole thing is like that because there are a couple through shorts a couple of shorts that I really liked That break the mold and do something really special What are my favorites being the one with the Prehistoric fish if you've seen it, you know what I'm referring to that was actually one of my favorites But for the most part just I don't know I found it really repetitive and boring and kind of cliched to depend on those three things for them to be edgy and Sort of present a different style of animation that people haven't seen before You know, it's great that you can do a lot of CG work because it looks amazing But again, we don't really need that in every single episode Yeah, it's fine here and there and I'm not saying I'm not saying it's a bad thing Especially if it enhances the story and all that stuff, but when you use that as a crutch it suffers and I think the audience Notices voluntarily or involuntary I'm not too sure on that but they do notice and the other thing that was criticized was the treatment of Women in a couple of these shorts, which was really Okay, it was out there. I'm not going to turn this into like this Moralistic debate and stuff. I'm just reviewing the series But overall most of the stories were really interesting and presented sort of this dynamic view of alternate futures with Technology and the way people interact with it. There were a couple of which surprised me I thought they were all gonna be CG, but there were a couple that were 2d drawings the one in China was really amazing and That was the other one with the yogurt which was Totally ridiculous, but the social commentary was on point and it was just so bizarre seeing it compared to the drift storyline which had some really uncanny valley CGI stuff It was it was a weird trip man Just you know to say the least and then you had sort of shorts that did sort of like the photo real tech where I guess the actor was filmed doing the scenes and then it was Digitized to where like it created a blend between the two worlds the real world and CGI stuff I'm not too sure on the process on that it looks very intriguing and it just hooked you It made you want to keep looking at it Regardless of the story quality and and I'm a huge fan of animation. I love the genre itself So I was really excited and I am really excited that this series exists and it can't explore different animation methods the last one with the secret wars between the Russians and the Evil demon monster things that was amazing. It looks straight out of a movie or a high quality video game So overall, yeah, I do believe that it is worth your investment I think you'll find something to like with each one Not everything hits the mark the way certain characters are written Especially the treatment of women and just the violence and nudity and gore and all that stuff might some might pull some people out of it, but I Don't know Give it a shot if you are interested in animation It is a good exercise in what we can do in 2019 with the medium And I am hopeful because it did get a good rating a lot of people did like it You know, they are far out there, but I do wish that we get a second season of Love death and robots with more shorts. So hopefully that's a thing, you know, it's a little bit adult oriented So it's not For the kids, but if you enjoy animation and interesting stories and just random concept random sci-fi ideas I think you're gonna Find some amusement in it. So what do you guys think about love death and robots? Let me know down below as always guys. Thank you for following me here. I don't we can geek them on YouTube Thank you for liking commenting subscribing hitting the hitting the notification though As always you can follow me in your favorite social media platform Facebook Twitter Instagram all that fun stuff I have got to go. I will catch all of you on our next review You